Sandtray is an expressive modality for all ages that uses sensory and symbolic means to safely explore the full range of self and experience.MORE ➝
SUPERVISION Training
Explore the complex nature of clinical supervision, the various tasks and roles of a supervisor, techniques and supervision models.
Consultation
Helping seasoned or emerging clinicians enhance professional development.In-person and virtual options, customizable, package rates available.
ETHICS Training
Ethical practice is a way of recognizing and thoughtfully resolving, to the best of one’s ability, the inevitable conflicts that arise in our work.
PLAY Therapy Training
Learn the basics, explore theory, understand the science of play and its clinical applications across populations and more.
Individualized & Mutually Created
Clinical or personal consultations for individuals or organizations; individual sessions utilizing sandtray and expressive arts; and a variety of co-created processes to meet your needs
Whether for personal wellbeing or professional use, expressive modalities can be profoundly impactful. Many of our workshops & retreats provide CE hours for participation.
This 3 day workshop provides an introduction to sandtray therapy theory and practice with children and adults.
A portion of the first day is learning how to set up and maintain spaces for this work, and adapt it for one’s personal working environment and population. Participants will evaluate various spaces based on their nervous system reactions and practical considerations.
There will be clinical demonstrations of work with children and adults, with many experiential activities to secure personal learning. We will explore various elements of the sandtray process in the context of clinical practice, paying particular attention to the self of the therapist, clinical conceptualization, and the clinical relationship.
This training interweaves didactic material, group discussion, demonstrations, and experiential exercises to explore sand, symbol and self. Participants will have ample opportunity to practice and refine basic skills and explore questions in a small-group setting. Even seasoned sandtray clinicians have found that this foundation level provides new insights for their work.
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Identify the history and theoretical background for sandtray therapy;
Describe differences between sandplay and sandtray play therapy;
Identify how to create and maintain a sandtray play therapy clinical space;
Identify differences in sandtray play therapy with children and adults;
Utilize sand and symbols to explore depth and meaning in sandtray play therapy;
Demonstrate beginning skills for facilitating sandtray play therapy in clinical practice;
Discuss the significance of presence in sandtray play therapy;
Discuss the challenges of not knowing and the risks of questions & the need to know in sandtray play therapy;
Articulate how trauma is stored and processed through image and sensory means;
Discuss ethical practices, competencies, & risks in sandtray play therapy
Inner Resources Training Institute is an approved provider for the following organizations:
Indiana Professional Licensing Board has approved this organization to provide category 1 continuing education hours for LSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, and LMHCs. Provider # 98000765A
NBCC, ACEP No. 7363
Association for Play Therapy Approved Provider #07-200
Registered Sand Therapist Trainer RST-C/T World Association of Sand Therapy Professionals
Inner Resources Training Institute follows all CE guidelines for the hours it provides and maintains full responsibility for all aspects of programming.
Programs that do not qualify for NBCC and/or APT, or any CE hours are clearly identified. To ensure that the credit hours you receive are applicable for your purposes, please contact the agencies for which you are seeking credit directly. You must attend the entire session to receive credit, no partial credit will be issued.
Course Details & Materials Checklist
Available Aug 1
All sections must be marked as complete to receive certificate.
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*All sales are final. Offer valid only for the year 2024. No refunds will be provided for inability to attend any training, regardless of the reason. A credit may be issued to your account, which can be applied towards the full purchase price of another training. This credit is valid for one year following the scheduled training you are unable to attend.
